Life-size puppets share the stage with songs of Paris and Weimar Berlin in Yael Rasooly’s Close Encounters With Music debut. The singer, actress and director joins pianist Daniel Rein and Rafael Castillo-Halvorssen for “Come to the Cabaret!,” weaving French chansons, Kurt Weill’s cabaret world and tributes to Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich into visual theater. Sunday, December 13, 2026, 4 p.m., Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center, 14 Castle Street, Great Barrington. Tickets $35 and $60, plus processing fees; cewm.org or 413-528-0100.